Well then we'll have to agree to disagree. You dont think I have the right to copy your work for free, I dont think you have the right to charge me for it. Guess what, the courts have ruled that because of these leveys I'M RIGHT not you.
"What about time? That is a very precious, non renewable resource in the context of software development."
Time is also scarce for the consumer. Make it easier to purchase than pirate and there goes half of my motivation for pirating.
Add in some sort of incentives for actually purchasing (such as support, on line play, whatever... as long as the consumer values it) and there goes the other half. Make your product worth the money you charge for it and people will pay.
"Haven't you ever been amazed that, with the 6 billion+ people in the world, the major news outlets all seem to converge on the same stories to report?"
I think youre making one mistake here, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times arnt the major news sources for all 6 billion people of the world. They are rather the major new sources for America. The rest of the world tends to use sources published in their own language, or in other english countries, with a more local slant. I doubt you'll see too much about the upcoming Canadian election in the New York Times. The Globe and Mail is another story.
"But to the extent such things are a shared experience, they work best when you're with someone with whom you already have a *real* relationship."
I hate to beak it too you but most people I know who play videogames do have "real" relationships with those they play with. Be it playing WoW with friends or relatives who live out of town while talking to them over a headset, or sitting on the couch drinking while playing some Tiger Woods with friends.
Who says that the uploader is in Canada?
P2P is legal in Canada (as in most other countries) its not the technology that has been made illigal. What is illigal is participating in a P2P exchange as the person doing the uploading while in violation of copywrite law.
Now if only Apple and Microsoft could team up to create an iTunes version for the 360. Downloadable video from iTunes to your Xbox 360 hooked in to your iPod would definatly be a killer app.
Not only the privacy nuts, the botters hate it too. It basically stopped the best bot out there, well at least made it so you had to jury rig the code (which was open sourced) insted of using the precompiled program.
You know, I think Ive gotten the wrong movie in the box from a movie rental store more often than I have been tricked into downloading the wrong movie.
The fact that evreyone who downloads from the same source gets the exact same data makes it very quick and easy to verify if youre getting what you think youre getting. Fakes dont stay up very long. (This comes from using bittorrent and newsgroups as my main means of downloading content).
I would consider $5 to actually be a LOW estimate of the cost for bandwidth assuming you take the oppertunity cost into account. Currently, downloading a movie at full bandwidth on my connection takes ~1 hour for astandard 800Mb xvid/divx dvd rip. During that time my connection is basically clogged up, I cant downlaod anything else at a resonable speed, and If I wanted to completly max out the movie download speed, even simply browsing the web slows to a crawl. Take into account the fact that I value my time at much more than $5 an hour waiting around for a movie to finish downloading doesnt seem worth while unless its substantially cheaper than buying the dvd from blockbusters stack of cheap pre-viewed movies.
Ive got to second the parent here. I bought a Sharp Zaurus about a year and a half ago, more on a whim than anything. I have occasionally used it for listening to music, checking email, writing up timesheets, and holding contact information, however I would have to say that 95% of the time I have spent using the device was spent reading ebooks.
I mustve read 100s of books on the thing since I first purchased it, soo bad its sitting on a shelf now. I havnt read as much lately as I would have liked. Anyways, PDAs work great for ebook readers, but thats only because there is no alternative (at least that Ive found).
My biggest gripe is the screen size, I would definatly like somthing bigger. I almost bought a PSP for that purpose alone, but somthing cheaper with less bells and whistles would definatly be an instant sell for me. Truth be told, I dont need any functionality besides the ability to open up a text file and page through it. Evreythign else just adds to the cost.
"Probably because they'd just be pirated to hell and back"
The problem with your logic is that it assumies that the content isnt being pirated to hell and back allready. Which it is. Releasing the show online would only allow those who wish to purchase it the choice to do so, as opposed to having no choice but to pirate it (assuming that they intend to download the show one way or the other).
I would gladly stop paying my $20 a month for commercial newservers if I could instead pay $20 a month to an itunes like video store instead.
"That's a 'form'. And as a 'yank' I can assure you there are people who will not be able to mark it correctly. God only knows how they get to the polling places..."
Perhaps you would be better off if those people DID screw up and had their ballots spoiled. If they're too stupid to check a box after someone has told them to only check the box of who they want to vote for, well lets just say youd be better off without their votes.
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Well then we'll have to agree to disagree. You dont think I have the right to copy your work for free, I dont think you have the right to charge me for it. Guess what, the courts have ruled that because of these leveys I'M RIGHT not you.
"What about time? That is a very precious, non renewable resource in the context of software development." Time is also scarce for the consumer. Make it easier to purchase than pirate and there goes half of my motivation for pirating. Add in some sort of incentives for actually purchasing (such as support, on line play, whatever... as long as the consumer values it) and there goes the other half. Make your product worth the money you charge for it and people will pay.
"Haven't you ever been amazed that, with the 6 billion+ people in the world, the major news outlets all seem to converge on the same stories to report?"
I think youre making one mistake here, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times arnt the major news sources for all 6 billion people of the world. They are rather the major new sources for America. The rest of the world tends to use sources published in their own language, or in other english countries, with a more local slant. I doubt you'll see too much about the upcoming Canadian election in the New York Times. The Globe and Mail is another story.
Ah, but do you mean the rap or the jingle?
Call Mr Plow
That's my name
That name again
Is Mr Plow!
I'm Mr Plow
And I'm here to say
I'm the plowingest guy in the USA
I got a big plow
And I move a lot of things
Just like your cow
If you have one
Thank you for summing up exactly what I was thinking.
"But to the extent such things are a shared experience, they work best when you're with someone with whom you already have a *real* relationship."
I hate to beak it too you but most people I know who play videogames do have "real" relationships with those they play with. Be it playing WoW with friends or relatives who live out of town while talking to them over a headset, or sitting on the couch drinking while playing some Tiger Woods with friends.
Who says that the uploader is in Canada? P2P is legal in Canada (as in most other countries) its not the technology that has been made illigal. What is illigal is participating in a P2P exchange as the person doing the uploading while in violation of copywrite law.
Then your high school sucked.
What added publicity? If youre not getting credit, people might start to believe that you were the one plagerizing.
Now if only Apple and Microsoft could team up to create an iTunes version for the 360. Downloadable video from iTunes to your Xbox 360 hooked in to your iPod would definatly be a killer app.
Not only the privacy nuts, the botters hate it too. It basically stopped the best bot out there, well at least made it so you had to jury rig the code (which was open sourced) insted of using the precompiled program.
The fact that evreyone who downloads from the same source gets the exact same data makes it very quick and easy to verify if youre getting what you think youre getting. Fakes dont stay up very long. (This comes from using bittorrent and newsgroups as my main means of downloading content).
Keeping a blog on the internet is to school as swearing at home is to your resteraunt.
Ive got to second the parent here. I bought a Sharp Zaurus about a year and a half ago, more on a whim than anything. I have occasionally used it for listening to music, checking email, writing up timesheets, and holding contact information, however I would have to say that 95% of the time I have spent using the device was spent reading ebooks. I mustve read 100s of books on the thing since I first purchased it, soo bad its sitting on a shelf now. I havnt read as much lately as I would have liked. Anyways, PDAs work great for ebook readers, but thats only because there is no alternative (at least that Ive found). My biggest gripe is the screen size, I would definatly like somthing bigger. I almost bought a PSP for that purpose alone, but somthing cheaper with less bells and whistles would definatly be an instant sell for me. Truth be told, I dont need any functionality besides the ability to open up a text file and page through it. Evreythign else just adds to the cost.
Nah, he aate Rosencarl and Guildenlenny because a witch actually turned them into pigs.
"Probably because they'd just be pirated to hell and back"
The problem with your logic is that it assumies that the content isnt being pirated to hell and back allready. Which it is. Releasing the show online would only allow those who wish to purchase it the choice to do so, as opposed to having no choice but to pirate it (assuming that they intend to download the show one way or the other).
I would gladly stop paying my $20 a month for commercial newservers if I could instead pay $20 a month to an itunes like video store instead.
Damnit, I always forget to preview.
"Market Research"
"Communists take the money, peek into your bedroom, want to decide what you think and what you say and what you read. There is just no analogy."
Capitalists do this too, its called "Marked Research."
"That's a 'form'. And as a 'yank' I can assure you there are people who will not be able to mark it correctly. God only knows how they get to the polling places..." Perhaps you would be better off if those people DID screw up and had their ballots spoiled. If they're too stupid to check a box after someone has told them to only check the box of who they want to vote for, well lets just say youd be better off without their votes.
NCIX.com is usually pretty decent (and Canadian). You've just got to look for the right stores.
Am I the only one who assumed that the above post was a joke about the "hooked on phonics" program?
He then empties a can of mountain due into the fish boql and the fish floats at the top apparently dead.
A few minutes later he repaces the mountain due with water again and the fish is remains floating upside down.
A 9V battery is then dipped into the water and it seems to shock the fish back to life.
Thats what im thinking, ive never had a problem with any of my maxtors.
A google got me this. PSP Video 9.